Installation

Hardware requirements

• A server, which fits the software requirements :-)
• Some sensors, like 1-Wire sensors, watt meters
• Solar inverter which supports either
  • live query of data (SMA Webbox, Fronius, Kaco
  • write data in short intervals (quasi-live) somewhere

Software requirements

• Operating system with support of periodic job scheduling (for example *nix with cron)
• MySQL ≥ 5.1.* (supports table partitions, views, trigger, functions, procedures and events)
• PHP ≥ 5.3.*
• Web server with PHP support, tested with Apache, Litespeed and Nginx (recommended)

Installation

The system is devided into 2 repositories, the PVLng core repo with web frontend and API and the PVLng-Scripts repo with the data aquisition scripts.

• Installation instructions for PVLng core repository
• Installation instructions for PVLng-scripts repository

PVLng-scripts repository

Install with Git by cloning

# git clone https://github.com/KKoPV/PVLng-scripts.git

or download an archive

# wget -O master.zip https://github.com/KKoPV/PVLng-scripts/zipball/master
# unzip master.zip
# mv PVLng-scripts-master/* .
# rm -r master.zip PVLng-scripts-master

Afterwards prepare the configuration file with

# cp PVLng.conf.dist PVLng.conf

Fill in at least your API key, you can find it on the information page.

There are some examples in the Category:Scripts.